Archives for
September 2012

Three-year-old mobile game Doodle Jump released its biggest update ever on Aug. 23. The ninja-themed update featured the game's first storefront, where players could purchase new costumes and powerups. This freemium approach was a departure for the $...

Just minutes after Apple eclipsed the rest of the tech world with its invitation to the iPhone 5 unveiling, HTC sent out invitations to its own event. Taking place Sept. 19 at a venue in New York City, that event will begin at 11 a.m. Eastern. As for...

The Pigs are coming! Rovio has announced the its next Angry Birds title, Bad Piggies, on Tuesday. Unlike the traditional Angry Birds franchise, Bad Piggies looks like it will focus on the pigs -- not the birds. Think of it as the Rovio version of War...

Coca-Cola passed 50 million fans on Facebook shortly after 9 a.m. Tuesday, according to a spokesperson for the company. Several celebrities like Rihanna and Lady Gaga have more more than 50 million Facebook fans, as do services like YouTube and Faceb...

AMC's The Walking Dead just passed the 10 million fan mark on Facebook. That's a big number -- especially for a television show on cable TV. To celebrate the event, AMC created an awesome graphic to thank fans of the show. A pitch-perfect homage to t...

UPDATE: These pictures are fake. Michael Price, a current Simpsons writer asked Matt Groening if they were his. He tweeted: @theleanover @simpsonology @thatbilloakley @tubatron Matt Groening looked at those pics just now & immediately said they're NO...

A research group at the Tokyo Institute of Technology is developing a cooking simulator designed to help anyone prepare the perfect steak. It features a force feedback frying pan and a digital spatula that accurately recreates the sense of cooking. A...

Matchbox Twenty frontman Rob Thomas uses a songwriting app to pen and easily rearrange lyrics, frequently browses social news website Reddit and takes in movies on an iPad. The digital world has changed drastically since Thomas and his Grammy-winning...

Name: Rootsy Quick Pitch: Share photos, invites and stories with family members only. Genius Idea: Rootsy lets you connect to family members on a private social network to share things that might be too personal to post on Facebook. Frustrated with e...

Samsung announced the Samsung Galaxy Stellar Tuesday, an Android smartphone headed exclusively to Verizon on September 6th. Designed for budget consumers, the phone will be available for free on the network with a new two-year agreement and after a $...

Update 4:40 p.m. ET: Turkish officials have released an official statement denying this rumor. Perhaps India, where citizens cried foul after their government blocked hundreds of websites, was just the beginning. Turkey's Minister of Transport and Co...

Conversational victory on Twitter isn't the end goal of Barack Obama's social media strategy, according to the campaign's chief digital strategist. Speaking at a Democratic National Convention panel, Joe Rospars said that his focus lies on monitoring...

In case you missed it, a hacker group called AntiSec announced Tuesday it had grabbed the identifying numbers of 12 million iPhones and iPads -- and to prove it, released a million of those IDs to the public. Now it seems the hackers may have nabbed ...

Old Spice is kicking off football season with a new marketing campaign centered around an active NFL star. Greg Jennings, a wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers, will serve as the newest Old Spice Guy to promote their Champion deodorant in a serie...

Cengizhan Çelik and Candan Canik of Turkey got married and exchanged their vows over Twitter. The happy pair "wanted to have a little surprise," according to the groom, who works as the social media editor of a Turkish news site. The mayor of Istanbu...

Data is having a moment. Analytics are sexier than ever before, and metrics are drive decision-making and thus, boosting revenue. Not surprisingly, there are lots of data tools out there to parse your referral traffic, pageviews, time on page and mor...

Former New York Giants football player Michael Strahan officially became Kelly Ripa's permanent co-host on morning show Live! With Kelly on Tuesday, ending months of speculation. Strahan replaces Regis Philbin, who retired in November after clocking ...

How many apps have you installed on Facebook? More importantly, how many of them could post something in your name right now, without your knowledge? Chances are, it's more than half of them. Privacy protection company Secure.me analyzed some 500,000...

As Apple gears up to launch its next-generation iPhone on Sept. 12 in San Francisco, the company is rumored to also be readying new iPods. According to 9to5Mac, two or more revamped iPod lines such as an updated iPod nano, iPod shuffle or iPod Touch ...

Despite a claim made by hacking group AntiSec, which said it compromised 12 million Apple iOS Unique Device IDs (UDIDs) and personal information from a laptop of an FBI staffer, the government agency is denying that it ever had the data the hackers a...

Some investors and Facebook insiders may be rushing to sell off their stock in the company, but at least one person plans to hold onto his shares for a while: Facebook's CEO and cofounder Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook revealed in a filing with the Securi...

Mashable is thrilled to announce that New York Times columnist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Nick Kristof will join the 2012 Social Good Summit to discuss how gaming can be used for social good. Kristof is a passionate advocate of social issues ...

Nokia is set to announce the next-generation of its Lumia line of smartphones a press event Wednesday morning in New York. The announcement is likely to center around the company’s first Windows Phone 8 handset(s). More than just a simple software up...

The first trailer for Steven Spielberg's Lincoln will debut in a Google+ Hangout on Thursday, Sep. 13. This will be the first time that a film trailer has launched in a Google+ Hangout. In addition to the trailer, director Steven Spielberg and Joseph...

Rickrollers, rejoice: you now have a video to link people to that will earn you an appreciative laugh, rather than a punch in the face. The cast of AMC's Mad Men -- which, to the chagrin of every fan of good television, is on hiatus until 2013 -- hav...

The Northwestern University football program launched a social media homepage on Tuesday, one that brings together content and status updates from a number of networks for easy fan consumption. Not just a collection of Twitter handles and other links...

More than 2.5 million people have signed online petitions posted to the White House's We the People website since its September 2011 launch, according to its Tuesday blog post. Those people have appended more than 3 million signatures to about 46,000...

You're probably at least somewhat familiar by now with "Gangnam Style," the baroque and bizarre Korean music video that's become a viral mega-hit on YouTube and been viewed more than 100 million times since July 15. If not, here's a quick recap: PSY,...

From here on Earth, the Sun looks remarkably consistent, continuously bathing our planet in light and heat without much change from year to year, let alone day to day. In reality, it's anything but calm, as this incredible NASA photo of a coronal mas...

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